Summer Teaching InternshipStone Soup’s Theatre’s educational programs focus on giving each young actor the tools they need to succeed on stage. All our student productions are actor-centered: our students are the true stars of our shows! We take focus away from the technical aspects of theatre and put it back in our young actor’s imaginations. We use suggestive costuming, sets and props to enable our student performers to bring the world of the play to life.

Description: Work with youth ages 5+ each week to perform 30-minute versions of a wide variety of scripts including adaptations of musicals and Shakespeare as well as literature-based classics like The Hobbit or Through the Looking Glass. We need interns who love kids and theatre.

Job Duties: Duties include assisting Teaching Artists in the creation of live theatre pieces; supervising, guiding and encouraging young performers; organizing scripts and attendance sheets; and the coordination of props and costumes. Interns will gain first-hand experience in bringing a script from page to stage with young performers including observing and collaborating with experienced teaching artists and leading games and exercises while also gaining classroom/rehearsal management skills.

Requirements:

– Interns must be available to work 7-8 weeks, from late June through August in our outdoor summer camps.

– Interns must be able to work 9am-3pm weekdays during the summer.

– Interns must have access to a car or be able to arrange transportation to camp sites.

– Interns must complete each camp they are assigned to in order to fulfill the internship requirements.

– All Interns must pass a background check, as required by the state of Washington.

Qualifications: Interns should have some experience working with children and either be completing a theatre or education degree, be a theatre or education graduate, or have significant theatre experience.

Assist the Education Director with the administration of Stone Soup’s numerous outdoor and onsite summer theatre camps serving youth ages 5 and up. The Assistant to the Education Director will serve as a back up to Education Director in multiple areas including answering the phone and fielding questions; assisting with the weekly planning and organization of camps; assisting with marketing projects and general office tasks.

The Summerstage Costumer is responsible for organizing, preparing and maintaining costume bins for the summer program; bins are composed of simple costume and prop pieces and rotated between camps on a weekly basis. The Costumer will also be responsible for creating a limited number of new bins for the summer (which will primarily be pulled from stock).